Method of elevating and delivering water from



UNITED STATES PATENT QFEIOE.

JOHN IV. VHEELER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO,

METHOD OE ELEVATING AND DELIVER/ING WATER FROM WELLS.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all 'whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN W. VHEELER, of the city of Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and use ful Improvement in Means for Drawing and Delivering Tater from Wells; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and marks thereon.

My invention is designed to be` used in wells of any depth or diameter and has been got up with the view of elevating and delivering water from the well with safety and certainty, the acts of drawing and delivering being performed simply by the turning of a windlass and requiring only one hand ofthe operator.

Of the drawing forming part of this specification, Figure l, is a view, by vertical section, of a. wellcurb, a bucket, and the means for raising the bucket and delivering the water, the valve in the bucket being shown resting on its seat the bucket being on its downward track; and Fig. 2, is a view, also by vertical section, of a curb, bucket, and the means for drawing and delivering the water, the valve of the bucket being shown elevated from its seat as when the water is passing out from the bucket and being delivered by the trough.

In both of the figures of the drawing like parts are indicated by like letters.

(a) marks the well-curb; the bucket; (c) the valve of the bucket; (d) the rope or chain; (c) the pulley; (f) the windlass shaft; (g) the crank; (It) the balancing weight of the bucket; the trough; the lever which operates the trough, and (7c) the guide to the lever.

The drawing represents a hinged cover to the windlass which may be used or not as preferred. The windlass and pulley are of common construction with the exception that the groove of the pulley is covered with india-rubber or gutta-percha, this covering being indicated by the blue line. It will be not-iced that the rope attached to the bucket is not secured to the pulley but only passes 26,870, dated January 1'?, 1860.

around, the friction alone keeping the rope from slipping on the pulley during the rotation of the windlass. The weight (L) is designed to balance the bucket when empty. The valve shown by the drawing is the beveled disk valve with a stem projecting downward and has for its seat an inclined bottom of the bucket terminating in a tube or cylinder, but other valves may be substituted for this valve, as may a flap valve with a stem, and the bottom of the bucket may be of ordinary construction.

It will be seen that the trough is hinged to the curb at (l) and that the lever is hinged to the trough at (m). The lever is guided by the bar (le) secured to the top of the curb, and in its movements plays in the slot of the guide bar. The lever is slotted at its inner end (n) the slot allowing the rope or chain free motion but being too small to admit more than the stem (o) of the knob (79) attached to crossebar or bail of the bucket.

From the construction and arrangement of the means here recited it will readily be perceived that, if the parts be in the position shown by Fig. 2, upon the windlass being turned in the proper direction to lower the bucket, t-he trough will recede from the bucket and pass to the position shown by Fig. 1, and the rope will pass through the slot of the lever (j). The bucket on reaching the water will easily become filled the valve opening upward by the pressure of the water. The bucket being filled and the windlass being so turned as to elevate the bucket brings the stem of the knob against the sides of the slot of the lever (j) raising the lever and carrying with it the trough, the rear and widened bottom of the trough hitting the stem of the valve and thus opening the valve and allowing the water free escape to a vessel outside of the curb. The relation of the Julcrum (m) of the lever and that (l) of the trough it will be perceived, is such that the rear end of the trough is movedpupward with a greater degree of rapidity than the bucket and that thus ample provision is made for the full and rapid opening of the valve.

Having thus set out my invention What I rapid advance than the bucket as herein set claim as new and desire to secure by Letters forth. Patent is Y JOHN W WHEELER Operating the valve in the bottom of the 5 bucket by the rear end of the trough, the Vitnesses:

lever actuating the trough being moved by T. T. EVERETT, the bucket, and the trough having a more G. C. LAMBIGHT. 

